Open AccessAir Pollution and Individual and Neighborhood Socioeconomic Status: Evidence from the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA)
Author(s) -
Anjum Hajat,
Ana V. DiezRoux,
Sara D. Adar,
Amy H. Auchincloss,
Gina S. Lovasi,
Marie S. O’Neill,
Lianne Sheppard,
Joel D. Kaufman
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
environmental health perspectives
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.257
H-Index - 282
eISSN - 1552-9924
pISSN - 0091-6765
DOI - 10.1289/ehp.1206337
Subject(s) - socioeconomic status , demography , ethnic group , metropolitan area , population , air pollution , geography , environmental health , effect modification , medicine , gerontology , confidence interval , biology , ecology , sociology , archaeology , anthropology
Although research has shown that low socioeconomic status (SES) and minority communities have higher exposure to air pollution, few studies have simultaneously investigated the associations of individual and neighborhood SES with pollutants across multiple sites.